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...scene recorded a voice shouting over the police loudspeaker, "I want everybody out of here. Florence and Normandie. Everybody. Get out. Now." As the outnumbered police drove off, the rioting roared out of control. Hapless motorists caught in the intersection were dragged from their cars and beaten. Looting and arson broke out a block away. Lieut. Mike Moulin, the field commander who ordered the retreat, later defended his decision: "I didn't want ((the officers)) killed. It's really that simple...
...McDowell, covering the antiriot mobilization at city hall, managed to grab a personal interview with Mayor Tom Bradley by posting herself near the entrance to his office there. Correspondent Sylvester Monroe, who has covered the Rodney King story throughout, was one of the first journalists to witness the early arson and looting. As Monroe was driving through South Central -- the focal point of the riot -- looters who noticed him would flash the black-power sign, a clenched fist, and he would flash it back. Says Monroe: "That's how I managed to move through the community that night without being...
...Magnin on Wilshire Boulevard. Nearby apartment buildings caught fire. "We pick up from one fire and go on to another," explained fire captain Mike Castillo shortly after evacuating 15 residents from a burning building. Castillo's four-man crew stayed on the job for 48 hours straight, tracking arson activity as it moved north and west through the city...
...burn and mostly their lives that are lost. Nearly every black leader of note voiced some variation on these comments from Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: "We vigorously condemn with all the force we can muster what has happened. Rioting, arson, looting and murder solve nothing...
...protests, Patkar has been beaten, arrested and banned from several villages. The former Bombay social worker faces 10 or so trials on offenses ranging from arson to kidnapping government officials. Patkar claims that the charges are trumped up and that she advocates only nonviolent civil disobedience...